"A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread."

-- David Crystal

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“Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.”

Source : Speech at the House Judiciary hearing, www.cnet.com. April 24, 2008.
“I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.”
“A friend is not the one that will kill for you, but the one that will die for you”
“I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.”
“Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.”
“Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery brought industry and people were criticizing industry way back as 2,000 years ago, that it was going to pollute the air, sea. Industry is not the way. We must deal with nature.”

Source : Source: www.premiumtimesng.com
“To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.”
“My love for you is the sole image / Of God a human is allowed.”

Source : Else Lasker-Schüler (2002). “Selected Poems”, Green Integer Books

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